Pittsburgh officials are using a $50,000 urban redevelopment grant to create a "dairy district'' around a historic family-owned business; Colteryahn Dairy has been in business for 126 years.
The grant will be used to highlight the dairy's operation and develop neighboring sites as complementary businesses, including a restaurant, ice cream shop or candy store.
Gregory Jones, executive director of the community development group Economic Development South, says the plan is "an opportunity to support the last dairy in the city of Pittsburgh'' and turn that section of heavily traveled Brownsville Road into a "destination.''
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says the business spent $5 million upgrading in 1998 and tripled its production. He says the grants are meant to spur development around such successful, long-term businesses. PD
—AP Newsfinder
